Kanye West's "Welcome to Heartbreak" Is imo one of the best uses of this effect
FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
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Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#32I love how we try to recreate things that are errors to add realism to something too clean. I've spent many hours in front of tape machines from analog to digital, and each format has its peculiarities when glitching. The analog formats had drop outs and other noise from the analog nature as well as things like head switching. There were also the various methods of drop out compensation like BCSP that would repeat th…
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distort…
My HAM radio instructor (VE3XT) was a transmitter engineer who lamented the resurgence of tube amps in the 2000s. He said that what young people call “warmth” in sound is distortion that his kinfolk worked tirelessly to eliminate.
I didn’t understand it at first, and then I saw the growing interest in compact cassettes and was metaphorically tearing out my hair.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#33I love how we try to recreate things that are errors to add realism to something too clean. I've spent many hours in front of tape machines from analog to digital, and each format has its peculiarities when glitching. The analog formats had drop outs and other noise from the analog nature as well as things like head switching. There were also the various methods of drop out compensation like BCSP that would repeat th…
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distort…
> CD distortion
WHAT?!
Maybe you mean the dynamic range clipping caused from the bad mastering that happened during the loudness wars, but CD as a medium is impossible to have audio distortion due to its impressive 44.1 kHz sample rate at 16 bit depth.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#34Here's some "glitch art" made with an SDR transmitter output power set to exactly the SNR threshold of the receiver.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#35Here's some "glitch art" made with an SDR transmitter output power set to exactly the SNR threshold of the receiver. https://www.w6rz.net/pixellation.mp4
One of the projects I've had in mind for a while is implementing a transmitter and receiver pair in GNURadio and adding in noise or otherwise abusing the signal for glitch purposes
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distort…
> CD distortion WHAT?! Maybe you mean the dynamic range clipping caused from the bad mastering that happened during the loudness wars, but CD as a medium is impossible to have audio distortion due to its impressive 44.1 kHz sample rate at 16 bit depth.
You speak of "The Loudness Wars." It was a fully intentional choice made by people who knew exactly what they were doing. For the most part, bowing down to label pressure to let people think their stereo is louder.
Except for the guy who did Red Hot Chili Peppers' albums. He was known for compressing sound, and turned it to 12 for the loudness wars. Californication is the poster-child of the issue for a reason.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> CD distortion WHAT?! Maybe you mean the dynamic range clipping caused from the bad mastering that happened during the loudness wars, but CD as a medium is impossible to have audio distortion due to its impressive 44.1 kHz sample rate at 16 bit depth.
You speak of "The Loudness Wars." It was a fully intentional choice made by people who knew exactly what they were doing. For the most part, bowing down to label pressure to let people think their stereo is louder. Except for the guy who did Red Hot Chili Peppers' albums. He was known for compressing sound, and turned it to 12 for the loudness wars. Californication is the poster-child of the issue for a reason.
How does that contradict what I said?
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#38Old school techno and a trippy video, love to see it! In case anyone's interested, it's published as "Emmanuel - Chainreaction", available on youtube as well:
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
You speak of "The Loudness Wars." It was a fully intentional choice made by people who knew exactly what they were doing. For the most part, bowing down to label pressure to let people think their stereo is louder. Except for the guy who did Red Hot Chili Peppers' albums. He was known for compressing sound, and turned it to 12 for the loudness wars. Californication is the poster-child of the issue for a reason.
How does that contradict what I said?
It doesn’t. Conversation isn’t debate
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#40You know, i was all ready to be dismissive of this, using encoder errors for art sounds silly. But i watched the video and it really was cool and artistic.
Yeah and while I can relate to your first sentiment, it's still infinitely better than some AI slop like this generative music shit that is currently at the top of the frontpage.